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CHARLES S. MLLER, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE IRON CLAD MANU- FACTURING COMPANY,

OENEW YORK, N. Y.

y.CI IEiCIZEICATION forming part :if Letters Patent No. 351,707, dated October 26, 1886.

Applir'ation tiled December 3, 1885. Serial No. 184.638. (No modeh) .To all whom, it may concern:l

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. MLLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New 5 York, have invented a certain new, useful, and Improved Bottom for Vessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a Io strong and durable bottom for vessels u sed for containing liquids ot' various sorts, but more especially as fountains lfor aerated beverages.

The invention consists in certain novel fea tures in the construction and arrangement of a reenforced bottom, as I will now proceed to particularly set forth and claim. y

In the accompanying drawings, in which like parts are designated by similarl letters ol' 2o reference, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal Section ot' a Soda-water fountain, illustrating one ofthe first steps in my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view .with this step completed. Fig. 3 is a top view, and Fig. 4 a side` elevazf, tion, of a device employed in holding the bottom hoop iu position during the riveting; and Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section, on a larger scale, ofthe lower part of a fountain nishcd according to my invention.

3o For convenience of description I have shown my invention as applied to a soda-water fountain.; but I do not thereby limit its applicability. v f v The outer cylinder, a, the head b, the lining 3 5 c, and bung d may be all as usual.

e is the bottom hoop, which is ot' greater diameter throughout than the cylinder a, so as to leave aspace betweenthetwo, and which may be ot slightly less diameter at its upper 4o end than at its lower end to contract this space at its upper end. This hoop is riveted to the cylinder a before the liningc is introduced, and with a ring or hoop, f, interposed between the cylinder and hoop e, said ring f being ofthe thickness of the difference between the diameters of the hoop e and cylindera, so that while said hoop e and cylinder are riveted together their surfaces do not come in contact. The

ring f, as seen in Figs?) and 4f, is provided with a series of notches, f', equal in number 5o to the number of rivets employed in connecting the hoop e and cylinder a.. Fig. .l shows said ring fin position for riveting ou thehoop e, and Fig. 2 shows said hoop riveted onto the cylinder and the ring'fwithdrawn. After 55 the hoop e has been riveted, the lining is introduced, and then a vcup-shaped bottom, g, (see Fig. 5,) is applied, its upper edge terminating at the rivets and entering the space between the hoop c and cylinder a. After 6c this bottom is in position, a bottom-support, h, of suitable construction is applied and secured to the hoop e in any suitable manner, and then the space between hoop aand cylinder a is tilled with solder, as indicated at s, Fig. 5, and the several parts firmly sweated together in any of the usual ways applicable to the work in hand.

The bottom-Support which I prefer, and which l have herein shown, is covered in Letters Patent No. 272,590, dated February 20, 1883. l prefer to use rivets i in connecting the bottom-support and hoop e, and I arrange this bottom-support in immediate contact with the bottom g, so that said bottom g is braced between its support and the rivets usedto connect the hoop e and cylindera. This construction, supplemented by the solder and sweating, makes practically a solid bottom for the vessel.

What I claim as my invention, to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the body of a vessel, of ahoop secured to the same by rivets, with an intervening space betweeny the body and hoop, av bottom proper, with its peripheral edge in the space between the hoop and body and secured by solder applied in such space and sweated, andthe bottomsupport attached to the hoop close up against the bottom, snb- '9e stantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of December, A. D, 1885.

CHARLES s. MLLER..

and desire Witnesses:

ARTHUR C. WEBB, GEARLEs A. ,GUIBERr 

